- 13:11 16/09/2013
A health worker in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg is suspected of stabbing a nurse to death over “personal enmity,” investigators said Monday.
- 12:34 16/09/2013
A Russian court on Monday sentenced a man from the Urals region to life in jail after finding him guilty of killing three of his family members at a local cemetery.
- 23:10 13/09/2013
Two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty in US federal court in Boston on Friday to charges they hindered the investigation into the April 15 attack, US media reported.
- 22:43 12/09/2013
Real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky, who is wanted in Russia for embezzlement, was granted Cambodian citizenship, his attorney Diana Tatosova told the RAPSI legal news agency on Thursday.
- 17:32 12/09/2013
Members of a southern Russian crime gang detained following a lethal shootout earlier this week may have murdered at least 30 people, the head of the local Interior Ministry said Thursday.
- 13:14 12/09/2013
Russian police have detained three young women, including a minor, suspected of beating a 26-year-old Siberian furniture maker with his own tools, and then robbing him, after the victim allegedly reneged on a promise to pay them about $150 for sex, police in the Siberian city of Irkutsk said Thursday.
- 12:02 12/09/2013
Ukraine has extradited to Russia a suspected killer and member of an extremist group thought to have been involved in the killing of a judge, the Russian Prosecutor General's office reported Thursday.
- 23:02 11/09/2013
Interpol said Wednesday that it had not issued a red notice for billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, the largest shareholder in Russian fertilizer giant Uralkali, which is embroiled in a legal dispute with Belarus.
- 22:03 11/09/2013
Reports of a brutal rape of a four-year-old girl in Russia's East Siberian city of Yakutsk set off a storm of public outrage, with locals staging a rare unsanctioned rally, calling for “impalement” and rushing to sign a petition to reinstate the death penalty for child abusers.
- 17:40 11/09/2013
A prominent Russian photographer in the country’s fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, faces 15 years in prison for killing his model wife in a fit of rage, investigators said Wednesday.
- 15:26 11/09/2013
Seven Colombian nationals accused of stealing about $1 million worth of jewelry and cash at an exhibition in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms, prosecutors said this week.1
- 15:06 11/09/2013
Police officers caught several high-ranking officials in Russia’s Pension Fund demanding a 3.5 million ruble ($106,000) bribe from their buildings’ security company, the police announced Wednesday.
- 12:01 11/09/2013
A municipal lawmaker in Russia’s Urals region has been detained after drug police found over 4 kilograms of cannabis split between his car and a garage where he was allegedly packaging the drugs with an associate, regional narcotics officials said Wednesday, adding that both men had been high at the time.
- 05:51 11/09/2013
Police in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok seized more than a thousand of fake 5,000-ruble notes (one is equal to about $150), a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 22:18 10/09/2013
US prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking to seize expensive New York properties purportedly purchased with funds stolen from Russian coffers in an alleged scam detailed by whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose 2009 death in a Russian jail has sparked a diplomatic rift between Washington and Moscow.
- 17:44 10/09/2013
The value of the cybercrime market in Russia dropped 6 percent to $1.93 billion last year, compared with $2 billion the year before, a top cyber security expert said Tuesday.
- 15:12 10/09/2013
Prosecutors in the trial of a man charged with plotting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin have called for a jail sentence of 15 years, RAPSI legal news agency reported Tuesday.
- 14:35 10/09/2013
A Russian man who killed an 81-year-old woman to whom he owed money has been sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on its website Tuesday.
- 17:52 09/09/2013
A 16-year-old girl in south Russia was stabbed in the chest by a relative at a police precinct for refusing to marry the groom of her parents’ choice, investigators said Monday.
